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Unit 1:Our World
Weekly Theme:Antarctic Life
Selection 4:Title: Penguin ChickAuthor: Betty Tatham
fierce
• Something that is fierce is very strong or violent.
• The fierce wind blew a tree down.
• What word means the opposite of fierce?
whips
• If something whips, it moves or hits quickly and suddenly.
• During a tornado the wind whips around and around.
• What else whips besides the wind?
echoes
• When you make a noise and the sound is repeated, it echoes.
• My voice echoes in the cave.
• In what other places can you hear how a sound echoes?
shuffles
• A person who shuffles walks without lifting his or her feet off the ground.
• My little brother shuffles when he puts on Dad’s shoes.
• Why do you think someone shuffles?
huddle
• A huddle is a group of animals or people that is close together.
• The football players formed a huddle to decide on their next play.
• What does a huddle usually look like?
junior
• The word junior means younger or smaller.
• There were to grown seals and one junior seal at the zoo.
• What is the difference between a junior animal and a grown animal?
down
• The fine, soft feathers on a bird are called down.
• Down helps protect birds from cold.
• The word down can also mean going from a higher to lower place.
• How can you keep warm when the temperature goes down?
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction– is a story or account about actual living things
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Comprehension Skill:
Main Idea and Details
Key Vocabulary:fierce – very strong or violent
whips – moves or hits quickly and suddenly
echoes – repeats a sound
huddle – a group of people or animals that is close together
down – fine, soft feathers from a higher to a lower place
junior – the younger or smaller of two shuffles – walking without lifting the feet off the
ground
Vocabulary Skills:
Dictionary: Homographs
** Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Sometimes they have different pronunciations.
ex. read/read
can/can
Word Work:
Grammar Skills:
Predicates identify what the subject does or is.
A predicate can be one or more than one word.